Posted inMySQL

Quick Install MySQL from source distribution

August 3, 2009

This tutorial will show you on how to install MySQL server from source distribution. I use Slackware for this tutorial but it should be application in other Linux distros (Centos, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, Debian, etc) and BSDs varian (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD).

Basically the explanation on how to install MySQL is already explained the INSTALL-* files included in the source file. This tutorial is only a quick step and straightforward way because if you are a newbie you will take some times to read the INSTALL-* files.

Posted inOpensolaris

OpenSolaris 2009.06 screenshots

July 8, 2009
Opensolaris 2009.06 had been released on June 1, 2009. Here are some screenshots of them with Gnome compiz fusion 3D window appearance make it more like Ubuntu Linux. Some improvements had been done in the system, much more stable in compiz fusion, faster reboot or shutdown (comparing to the previous release 2008.11). There is one new application that really interesting, Elisa Media Center (something like Windows Media Center in Ms Windowz Vista or Win 7)
Posted inPostfix

Delete specific email queues in Postfix

July 5, 2009

If an email message is undeliverable, it will bounce back with ‘MAILER-DAEMON’  telling you that the message could not be delivered to the destination addresses. The queue will try to keep delivering based on your mail server configuration. Unfortunately it will make your mail server takes some resources to the queues. And we dont want this thing happened.

Posted inSolaris

How to edit crontab in Sun Solaris

June 27, 2009

First time I edited crontab file in Solaris was when I wanted to schedule my system to always synchronized to NTP server. It is set in the crontab file.
On Linux and BSD, just run command “crontab -e” to edit the crontab.

It is different on Solaris system, you need to specify the editor program to use. In Linux and BSD are set by default to use vi editor.

Open Solaris
Posted inSolaris

How to set / change timezone in Sun Solaris

June 27, 2009

In our core system, there are 3 Sun Fire V120. Two of them are running Solaris 9 and the remaining system running Solaris 8. The timezone of Solaris 9 are already set to Asia/Jakarta because these were installed by me whereas the Solaris 8 was installed by previous engineer and the timezone was set to GMT.

I want to synchronise this machine to an NTP server but because the timezone was set to GMT, the time we get was not in Jakarta timezone (GMT+7), so this tutorial is written to help you how to change timezone to GMT+7 in Solaris operating system.